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Re:FYI: The problem of creeping commercial surveillance by BurningFrog on Friday September 01, 2023 @09:41AM (#37350728)
This could easily be automated and the results published.
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Re:FYI: The problem of creeping commercial surveillance by mixedmath on Friday September 01, 2023 @09:45AM (#37350771)
Where would one publish such an experiment?
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Re:FYI: The problem of creeping commercial surveillance by hedora on Friday September 01, 2023 @10:56AM (#37351621)
Even better, there could be a list of garbage cookies that this experiment produces.

As an anti-tracking measure, Firefox could put them into a global pool (shared with all other users), then randomly sample from the pool whenever making a request to the offending site.

The effect would be severe breakage for any sites that set unauthorized cookies.

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